Realism Quotes · Page 9

If someone is stupid enough 2 walk away be smart enough 2 let them leave~

— DeAngelo Stokes

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

— Neil Gaiman

If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.

— David Foster Wallace

I'm in the game of realism so happy endings probably feel a little bit too neat for life.

— Jesse Armstrong

Levels To better position yourself drop the extra baggage that holds you down.

— Gee Linder

I think what I find challenging is just trying to bring a truthfulness and a realism to a character.

— Tricia Helfer

It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.

— Elliott Abrams

Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?

— Lenore Skenazy

“Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to…

— Shannon L. Alder

Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for…

— Todd Haynes

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a…

— Alice Hoffman

You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need…

— Irvine Welsh

“He recommended realism in defining one’s circle of competence and discipline to stay within the circle. He added that it helps to…

— Daniel Pecaut

I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the…

— Berenice Abbott

In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is…

— Virginia Woolf

Scientific realism in classical (i.e. pre-quantum) physics has remained compatible with the naive realism of everyday thinking on the whole; whereas it…

— Ravi Gomatam

What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought…

— Brice Marden

Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I…

— Arnaud Desplechin

Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. It is also aware of the ineluctable tension between the moral…

— Anonymous

“It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least one…

— Sōseki Natsume

Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move…

— Elizabeth Sims

Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“If you see yourself as a man, no one will dare to see you as a kid.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third.

— Colson Whitehead

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.

— Nateman

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

— Mark Twain

I like movies where everything is dealt naturally and with a sense of realism.

— Varun Tej

We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.

— Anton Zeilinger

“Reality hasn't really sunk in yet, I knew that. I didn't want to know what life was going to feel like when…

— Keary Taylor

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

— Alton Tobey

The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism.

— Laurent Binet

I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.

— Robert Reynolds

A real man would buy things for his baby,not for a prostitute on his dick.

— Anonymous

“When words fail, the hammer drops, living can never be its own excuse.”

— Michael Hogan

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

— Mason Cooley

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

— Edmund White

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

— Richard M. Nixon

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

— Jean Cocteau